When you factor in all the energy needed to raise the corn and make the ethanol, it makes very little new energy
As I shared here, farmers are going to be growing corn whether you use it for ethanol or not. Even if the amount of new energy produced is minuscule, it is still more than what a stockpile of corn produces.
Other plants can be used to make ethanol
The alternatives do look interesting on the surface, but they lack the infrastructure. From a farming stance, in the current market climate, I'm just not seeing how moving to those crops would pencil out.
Here is the problem: The break even point on corn is roughly $4.25 per bushel. Before the big ethanol push, corn was selling for, if you were lucky, $3.00 per bushel. That is a sizeable loss that farmers were eating on ever bushel produced.
I hear you saying, "well, don't grow corn then. duh." While it would be great to grow the crops that people actually want to consume each year, mother nature is not so forgiving. Crop rotation is essential to farming, and that rotation through the corn belt includes corn. Other cropping options would see farmers taking an even larger loss over just taking the hit on corn.
So, yes, in a way I suppose it is a subsidy to help farmers. On the other hand it gives Americans a way to use up the excess crops that the farmers were growing anyway, into a product Americans desperately need. I will add that the price increase had to come one way or another. Losing $1.25 on each bushel of corn is not a sustainable business. It is a pretty serious issue for anyone who likes to eat food produced by farmers. Up here in Canada we were on the verge of completely losing the majority of agricultural industry only a few years ago. The ethanol push is the only thing that saved us.
The actual product of Ethanol may have no benefits, but the Ethanol industry is what has been keeping the agricultural industry stable enough to provide food to me and you. I, for one, am quite thankful for that.
If you actually reach the point where your web application is bound by the language used to generate HTML, the language your app is written in will be the least of your concerns.
It is no coincidence that Java shares a lot of commonality with Objective-C. Java, in the early days, was designed by people who came from an OpenStep background. OpenStep was a specification for cross-platform development framework from NeXT and Sun, implemented on their platforms and others including Windows.
What Java brought to the table was the Virtual Machine. The cross-platform framework problem had already been solved before Java.
Twitter's success has come from the fact that it has no one specific use-case. You can use it to communicate with millions of people, or you can use it to manage SMS broadcasts with only your closest friends, or you can use it in millions of other ways. It is up to you to determine how it best fits your needs, if at all.
Not all URL handlers point to resources that can be exploited. Apple is right here, it is up to the app developer to determine what the user should have to confirm and what they should not have to.
Apple might give you a few updates when you first purchase your device, but they soon stop coming too. First generation iPhone and iPod touch owners are already without the option of upgrading to iOS 4.
Peak hours change depending on the time of the year, but the current peak hours are 7AM-11AM and 5PM to 9PM with 11AM-5PM being charged at a rate somewhere between the low and peak prices.
The power company is not concerned with how much power you are using late at night, they have surplus capacity during those hours.
Does your electrical company increase your rates or move to a higher tier if you run appliances all day long?
Yes. Here in Ontario usage during peak periods is charged at a higher rate than off-peak periods. Not exactly the same method ISPs are using, but the idea is the same: To reduce consumption of an infrastructure that cannot support the demand.
I live and grew up in a DST area and I cannot fathom why we change the clock.
While it is true that you schedule with the world, the schedule is made between two or more people. If you can agree to 11AM in the winter, you can also agree to 12PM in the summer. Or maybe you might want to agree to 3PM in the summer.
As long as everyone has their clocks synchronized, the number itself has no meaning. Changing the synchronization twice per annum just leads to confusion, with absolutely no benefits.
I never learned anything by taking notes. I eventually realized that if I utilized the energy used in taking notes and instead applied it to paying attention, I learned a lot more in the end.
I feel a little let down by my teachers who constantly preached the importance of note taking. It serves no purpose and only hinders the education of those who take the time to take notes.
The cool thing about being an adult is that you have free will and are free to work the hours you want. Personally, I find a few hours during the afternoon and a few hours late in the evening work best for me, but you can go with what works best for you.
It could be a peer-to-peer phone (i.e. a two way radio), and the person in the video is talking with another time traveller who was also present in that time. Or perhaps the time travel machine acts as its own cell station, relaying the data forward in time. The lack of infrastructure does not really discredit the theory.
The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Canada, and Spain are the only countries where Taco Bell offers French fries. Having this product in 2 varieties: Fiesta Fries (Topped Fries in Spain) (Like Nachos Supreme, changing nachos for fries) and regular French fries.
Web 2.0 is actually a bad example as it accomplished a completely different goal than Web 1.0. Web 1.0 was human consumable content. Formats like HTML that described what is a heading, and what is a paragraph, but not what was contained within that heading or paragraph.
Web 2.0 brought formats based on XML, JSON, etc. which describe what the content is. What is a title, what is a price, etc. This allows computers to use the content in new ways that was only previously accomplishable using ugly scraping methods.
Some people incorrectly believed that Javascript was Web 2.0. That happened because websites started using Web 2.0 content via Javascript (AJAX) to enhance the website experience.
It is true that Web 2.0 is based on HTTP as Web 1.0 is, but after that, the goals are completely different.
SQL itself is already designed for business people to easily translate business rules into database logic. What is the point of duplicating efforts?
If SQL was designed for programmers, it would have been less human readable, but easier to query from code. The fact that people feel that we need tools to generate SQL, it is unfortunate that we did not go with an API designed for programmers from the start.
Every farm in the area can get 5Mbps service. If you need more, it is going to be location dependant. I am limited to 5Mbps where I am which comes with latency like: PING www.l.google.com (173.194.32.104): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=52.687 ms 64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=51.605 ms 64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=51.098 ms 64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=50.093 ms
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As I shared here, farmers are going to be growing corn whether you use it for ethanol or not. Even if the amount of new energy produced is minuscule, it is still more than what a stockpile of corn produces.
The alternatives do look interesting on the surface, but they lack the infrastructure. From a farming stance, in the current market climate, I'm just not seeing how moving to those crops would pencil out.
Here is the problem: The break even point on corn is roughly $4.25 per bushel. Before the big ethanol push, corn was selling for, if you were lucky, $3.00 per bushel. That is a sizeable loss that farmers were eating on ever bushel produced.
I hear you saying, "well, don't grow corn then. duh." While it would be great to grow the crops that people actually want to consume each year, mother nature is not so forgiving. Crop rotation is essential to farming, and that rotation through the corn belt includes corn. Other cropping options would see farmers taking an even larger loss over just taking the hit on corn.
So, yes, in a way I suppose it is a subsidy to help farmers. On the other hand it gives Americans a way to use up the excess crops that the farmers were growing anyway, into a product Americans desperately need. I will add that the price increase had to come one way or another. Losing $1.25 on each bushel of corn is not a sustainable business. It is a pretty serious issue for anyone who likes to eat food produced by farmers. Up here in Canada we were on the verge of completely losing the majority of agricultural industry only a few years ago. The ethanol push is the only thing that saved us.
The actual product of Ethanol may have no benefits, but the Ethanol industry is what has been keeping the agricultural industry stable enough to provide food to me and you. I, for one, am quite thankful for that.
If you actually reach the point where your web application is bound by the language used to generate HTML, the language your app is written in will be the least of your concerns.
Have we already forgotten where Java came from?
It is no coincidence that Java shares a lot of commonality with Objective-C. Java, in the early days, was designed by people who came from an OpenStep background. OpenStep was a specification for cross-platform development framework from NeXT and Sun, implemented on their platforms and others including Windows.
What Java brought to the table was the Virtual Machine. The cross-platform framework problem had already been solved before Java.
Twitter's success has come from the fact that it has no one specific use-case. You can use it to communicate with millions of people, or you can use it to manage SMS broadcasts with only your closest friends, or you can use it in millions of other ways. It is up to you to determine how it best fits your needs, if at all.
iPhone is also a trademark of Cisco. I think Apple probably has it covered.
Not all URL handlers point to resources that can be exploited. Apple is right here, it is up to the app developer to determine what the user should have to confirm and what they should not have to.
The first generation iPhone and the iPhone 3G have virtually the same hardware. Apple did not drop support for hardware reasons.
Apple might give you a few updates when you first purchase your device, but they soon stop coming too. First generation iPhone and iPod touch owners are already without the option of upgrading to iOS 4.
Peak hours change depending on the time of the year, but the current peak hours are 7AM-11AM and 5PM to 9PM with 11AM-5PM being charged at a rate somewhere between the low and peak prices.
The power company is not concerned with how much power you are using late at night, they have surplus capacity during those hours.
iPhone autocorrection error, I assume.
Facebook knows that too.
Yes. Here in Ontario usage during peak periods is charged at a higher rate than off-peak periods. Not exactly the same method ISPs are using, but the idea is the same: To reduce consumption of an infrastructure that cannot support the demand.
I live and grew up in a DST area and I cannot fathom why we change the clock.
While it is true that you schedule with the world, the schedule is made between two or more people. If you can agree to 11AM in the winter, you can also agree to 12PM in the summer. Or maybe you might want to agree to 3PM in the summer.
As long as everyone has their clocks synchronized, the number itself has no meaning. Changing the synchronization twice per annum just leads to confusion, with absolutely no benefits.
I could afford a $20 alarm clock... until I bought a $300 phone with a $100 monthly bill. Now I cannot.
I too am from Canada. It's not so much the heat, but the humidity that gets us. Virtually everyone has air conditioning in this part of the country.
I never learned anything by taking notes. I eventually realized that if I utilized the energy used in taking notes and instead applied it to paying attention, I learned a lot more in the end.
I feel a little let down by my teachers who constantly preached the importance of note taking. It serves no purpose and only hinders the education of those who take the time to take notes.
Seriously. If there is not already school bus service to your home, you most certainly do not need a ride from your parents.
The cool thing about being an adult is that you have free will and are free to work the hours you want. Personally, I find a few hours during the afternoon and a few hours late in the evening work best for me, but you can go with what works best for you.
It could be a peer-to-peer phone (i.e. a two way radio), and the person in the video is talking with another time traveller who was also present in that time. Or perhaps the time travel machine acts as its own cell station, relaying the data forward in time. The lack of infrastructure does not really discredit the theory.
What does Firebug offer that Web Inspector (Safari/Chrome) does not? As far as I can tell, they are pretty much the same.
Not exactly true. From Wikipedia:
The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Canada, and Spain are the only countries where Taco Bell offers French fries. Having this product in 2 varieties: Fiesta Fries (Topped Fries in Spain) (Like Nachos Supreme, changing nachos for fries) and regular French fries.
Web 2.0 is actually a bad example as it accomplished a completely different goal than Web 1.0. Web 1.0 was human consumable content. Formats like HTML that described what is a heading, and what is a paragraph, but not what was contained within that heading or paragraph.
Web 2.0 brought formats based on XML, JSON, etc. which describe what the content is. What is a title, what is a price, etc. This allows computers to use the content in new ways that was only previously accomplishable using ugly scraping methods.
Some people incorrectly believed that Javascript was Web 2.0. That happened because websites started using Web 2.0 content via Javascript (AJAX) to enhance the website experience.
It is true that Web 2.0 is based on HTTP as Web 1.0 is, but after that, the goals are completely different.
SQL itself is already designed for business people to easily translate business rules into database logic. What is the point of duplicating efforts?
If SQL was designed for programmers, it would have been less human readable, but easier to query from code. The fact that people feel that we need tools to generate SQL, it is unfortunate that we did not go with an API designed for programmers from the start.
Every farm in the area can get 5Mbps service. If you need more, it is going to be location dependant. I am limited to 5Mbps where I am which comes with latency like:
PING www.l.google.com (173.194.32.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=52.687 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=51.605 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=51.098 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.32.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=50.093 ms